If you’ve ever had a vaccine or a routine blood draw and didn’t even feel the “pinch,” congratulations, you’ve been a silent witness to a manufacturing miracle.
Senthilkumar (Senthil) Thiyagarajan, PhD., is a supply chain analytics professional at Medline Industries, specializing in digital twins, supply chain optimization, and Industry 4.0 technologies.
FARO CREAFORM, a business of AMETEK, Inc., announced an update for its Laser Line Probe (LLP) portfolio used with the Quantum X FaroArm® Series and Quantum Max FaroArm Series.
Lean thinking is often associated with manufacturing floors, production lines, and complex value stream maps. Yet waste exists in every type of process. Once you begin to see it, you realize that inefficiencies appear not only in factories but also in the everyday services we interact with.
Following 27 years of fruitful collaboration that enabled PolyWorks® to become the universal 3D metrology platform in German-speaking markets, InnovMetric has completed the acquisition of its German business partner Duwe-3d.
Becoming a Fellow in a professional society such as the American Society for Quality (ASQ), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Institute of Architects (AIA), or Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is a recognition of sustained achievement throughout one’s career, not merely a starting point.
Peak Technologies, a global provider of smart technologies, automated supply chain and mobile workforce solutions, announced the launch of Peak Automation Intelligence, an integrated AI-powered platform designed to help manufacturers and operators of warehouses and distribution centers modernize their operations with real-time visibility, automated data capture and high-speed material flow intelligence.
New orders of metalworking machinery, measured by the U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Report published by AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology, totaled $488.9 million in February 2026.